| Description |
1 online resource (277 pages) |
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Cover; SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY IN POSTWAR JAPAN; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Aim; Process; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Four-sector approach; Conceptual Apparatus Employed; Indistinguishability of Science and Technology; Science Classified and Defined According to Assessors; Academic Sector and Academic Science; Public Sector and Public Science; Private Sector and Private Science; Sponsored Science, Technocratic Science; Citizen Sector and Service Science; Two Other Criteria for Classifying Science; 1. Publicized and Privatized science; 2. Competition Mechanism |
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Periodization and Structure2 Democracy Versus Technocracy in Science; Problematique; I. Postwar Democracy and Science (late 40s to early 50s); A. Military vs. Scientists during the Occupation; B. 'Happy Marriage' of Democracy and Science: The Case of Minka; 1. Changing Relationship Between and Definition of 'Science and Democracy'; a. Science and Democracy as Liberators; b. Science and Democracy in Conflict; 2. Academic Egalitarianism -- Laboratory Democracy; 3. Egalitarian Forefront -- Case of Grassroots Geology; Creation of the Japan Science Council |
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C. Democracy vs. Technocracy in Academia -- Fate of JSC1. STAC (Science, Technology and Administration Council); D. The Decline of Minka and JSC Apathy Toward Politicization; I. Changing from Labour-intensive to Capital-intensive Science; II. Domination of Technocracy over Democracy in Science (late 50s to early 60s); 1. Democracy Alienated -- the Mechanism of the Minka School; III. Democracy vs. Technocracy in Science (from late 60s on); A. Creation of Nihon Kagakusha Kaigi (Association of Japanese Scientists); B. Scientist Attitudes Classified; 1. Academics; 2. Unionists; 3. Populist |
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4. Three Schools ComparedIV. Conclusion: The Place of Democracy in Japan; A. Postwar Democracy and New Populism Compared; 3 Changing Models of Japanese Universities; The Model of Japanese Universities Changes during the Occupation; From Elite to Mass Universities; Expansion of Higher Education during the Occupation; Cheap Universities; Selection Rather than Education; Egalitarianism -- Toward the Homogenization of Scientists; Graduate Schools; Process of Internalization; Entrance quota; The Training of Industrial Scientists; Manpower Policy During High Ecomomic Growth |
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Industrial Demands for Scientific ManpowerAbandonment of Egalitarian Policy: Higher Technical Schools; The Role of Private Universities; The Realities of the Science and Technology Boom; 4 Expansion and Limit of Academic Science; Grants-in-Aid of the Ministry of Education; University-affiliated Research Institutes; Common Use Research Institutes (1953- ); Big Academic Science -- Case of KEK; NIURI -- a National Institute (1971- ); National Prestige and International Cooperation; The Difficulty of Cooperation between Academic and Industrial Sciences; Academic Scientists Abroad |
| Summary |
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
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Bureaucratic Model to Business Model? |
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Print version record |
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Science -- Japan
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Science -- Social aspects -- Japan
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Technology -- Japan
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Technology -- Social aspects -- Japan
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Science
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Science -- Social aspects
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Technology
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Japan
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136154751 |
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1136154752 |
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